The developer later posted an update to the Allison Road Facebook page, but it’s as frustratingly vague as Team17’s own statement.

In fact, it’s essentially exactly the same:

After a long consideration between Team17 and ourselves, we have reached a mutual agreement to end our collaboration on publishing Allison Road under Team17’s Games label. Sometime things pan out differently than expected as game development and publishing have so many layers of complexity… We’d like to especially thank everyone for their support through-out, it has and will always be appreciated!

Allison Road started life as a Kickstarter project in 2015, aiming to fill the horror void that Konami left when they cancelled Silent Hills.

Not long after that, the crowdfunding campaign was abandoned and the development team signed a publishing deal with Worms developer Team17.

It’s clear that something broke down between the developer and publisher, but it’d be pretty classless for either one to go out and trash the other. It could be years, if ever, before we find out what really happened.

It’s unclear whether or not Allison Road could find another publisher or return to the crowdfunding format – for now, Lillith Ltd probably just need some time to take stock.